Affecting waters and coastlines worldwide, plastic marine debris is a pervasive issue that continues to intensify. It threatens wildlife, habitats, and ecosystem functioning, as well as coastal tourism and recreation. This ...

Recently many researchers have labored to put the linguistic body back together. Historically, linguistic study has focused on the sounds produced by the mouth, but more recently work has emphasized the importance of body ...

Residential energy consumption is becoming an ever-growing sector, in 2012 accounting for 21.2% of total consumed energy in the United States. People have been focused on exploring potential strategies to lower the associated ...

<p>This dissertation examines racial socialization in Afro-Brazilian families in order to understand how phenotypically diverse families negotiate racial hierarchies and ideologies of white supremacy. As an inductive, ...

The Durham Center is the public agency in Durham County responsible for connecting
persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with the services that they need. In
February of 2008 the Durham Center began to perform ...

<p>My dissertation project is an ethnographic history of "homes of capital," merchant homes located in port-cities of Gujarat in various states of splendor and decrepitude, which continue to mark a long history of Indian ...

<p>In this thesis we explore and extend the theory of persistent homology, which
captures topological features of a function by pairing its critical values. The
result is represented by a collection of points in the extended ...

<p>The question of what leads an individual to act dishonestly interests researchers, policy-makers, and lay-people alike. While a growing body of research suggests that dishonest behavior is typically limited, and reflects ...

This paper applies several jump detection tests to intraday stock price data sampled at various
frequencies. It finds that the choice of sampling frequency has an effect on both the amount
of jumps detected by these tests, ...

<p>Because species respond individually to climate change, understanding community assembly requires examination of multiple species from a diversity of forest niches. I present the post-glacial phylogeographic history of ...

<p>Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the second most common type of infection identified in the clinical setting and disproportionately afflict women. UTIs most frequently manifest in the form of infection of the lower ...

<p>As an aggregate, American households have shown rising debt levels over the past few decades, yet we do not understand how debt varies within households over time and what factors influence this variation in a meaningful ...

This paper examines two factors involved in the environmental health risk of indoor air pollution for households in Indonesia. First, I examine the determinants of a household’s decision to switch to cleaner burning fuels. ...

<p>Television (TV) is the predominant advertising medium, and recent technological advances such as digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes (STBs) have the potential to transform this industry by enabling ...

In the United States, the built environment is responsible for nearly 37 percent of the nation’s total energy consumption and around 70 percent of its electricity use. Residential buildings account for almost 21 percent ...

Town-gown relations have a very large impact on the student experience at Duke University. The overall college experience is not based solely on academics, but also on the social and cultural outlets that a university can ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has committed to regulating greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from stationary sources under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (“CAA”). There are only a few established regulatory ...

The purpose of this study was to examine private sector-civil society partnerships. The literature section focuses on factors that make partnerships work. The study also examines two joint advocacy projects that KEPSA has ...

<p><i>*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*</i></p>Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, were once sparkling examples of postwar American progress. In the early 20th century, their thriving ...